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Chris Sharma, the video of Biographie at Ceuse

The video of Chris Sharma and his 2001 first ascent of Biographie (also known as Realization ) at Ceuse in France.

Volumes have been written about Biographie, the route at Ceuse bolted by Jean-Cristophe Lafaille, climbed to half-height by Arnaud Petit in 1996 and then linked to the top by American Chris Sharma in 2001. A first section graded 8c+, followed by another intense 20m graded 8b+ but with some moves which, were they to be on a boulder at ground-level, would be 7C in their own right...

To link it all - this route also known as Realization - Sharma required three years of attempts and, above all, he had to dig deep within himself to find the road which has led to new difficulties. A road which took him from this 9a+ to the 9b of Jumbo Love at Clark Mountain in the USA in 2008 and, last year at Margalef, to First Round First Minute, a route which at present is ungraded but is undoubtedly extremely extreme. So much so that on First Round First Minute Sharma told us he relived an experience similar to Biographie a decade earlier...